Father filed FIR against 33-year-old after finding out that he had withdrawn over Rs 4 lakh from the former’s bank account

A 33-year-old man was arrested on Saturday, a day after his father filed a police complaint against him for stealing money.

On March 17, 59-year-old Rambhau Rawade registered an FIR against his son Sunil for stealing money from him by forging his signature on a cheque and withdrawing over Rs 4 lakh from his account. The Sahakar Nagar police arrested Sunil from his house on Saturday and investigations revealed that he needed the cash to indulge his alcohol and gambling addictions.

It all began on Friday when Rambhau went to the Dhankawadi branch of Bank of Maharashtra to withdraw some money and realised that multiple transactions had been done on his account, of which he had no idea. “I went to withdraw Rs 5,000 from my account. When I asked the cashier for my balance, the amount she told me was far less than what I had expected. I then took a printed statement and saw the innumerable transactions that had been made,” he told Mirror. Stunned, Rambhau spoke to the branch manager and they decided to try and nab whoever was behind the transactions. The manager promised to call Rambhau to the branch the minute someone came to withdraw money from his account.

On the same day, around 12.30 pm, Sunil went to the bank to make another withdrawal. Rambhau was immediately informed and on reaching the bank, he saw, to his shock, that it was his own son who was stealing from him. “This is not the first time that Sunil has stolen from me. It is extremely disappointing that he behaves like this. He has two children of his own. And, instead of taking care of them and his wife and being responsible, he only adds to our troubles,” Rambhau added.

Rambhau had been running a welding shop in Dhankawadi for the past 20 years. He hails from a village near Panshet and is primarily a farmer. He shut the shop a few months ago due to ill health. His elder son who works in a bank and the youngest one, a driver, now take care of the family.

“This wasn’t the first time, but it was the last straw. That’s why I decided to file a complaint. I have worked hard for the money and it is a lifetime of savings. Rs 4,76,800 is a huge amount for me to ignore,” Rambhau said.

When the cops questioned Sunil, he said he needed the money to buy lottery tickets. Police sub-inspector Vivek Padvi of Sahakar Nagar police station, who is investigating the case, said, “The accused withdrew amounts between Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000 from December 15, 2016, right till March 16. We have booked Sunil under sections 379 for theft, 420 for fraud, 465 for forgery, 468 for cheating, 471for using as genuine a forged document and 423 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He will remain in police custody for the next two days during which we hope to get more details as to what he did with the money.”

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